Hosiery drier



Dec, 5, 1949 v s, PlKOR 2,499,322

HOSIERY DRIER Filed Aug. 11, 1947 /6 ,4 Fig. I.

I n ventor Patented Dec. 6, 1949 3 UNITED. STATES FATENT IOFFICE 2,490,322 Y I V HosIERr DRIER Stefan Pikor, permit, Mich. Application August 11, 1947, Serial No. 768,013

provements in hosiery dryers and the primary object of the present invention is to provide a hanger including a plurality of bearing members and novel and improved holding means engaging said bearing members to retain articles to be dried therebetween.

Another important object of the present invention is to provide bearing members having grooves and pivoted holding members placeable in said grooves to cause the hosiery placed upon the bearing members to adhere in said grooves, whereby the holding members may be then raised for the placement of additional articles upon the bearing members, without the first placed article slipping from position to the bearing members.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a hanger that is quickly and readily disassembled facilitating convenient shipping or storing of the same.

A still further aim of the present invention is to provide a hosiery dryer that is simple and practical in construction, strong and reliable in use, neat and attractive in appearance, relatively inexpensive to manufacture, and otherwise well adapted for the purposes for which the same is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which- Figure l is a plan view of the present invention,

the holding members being in a lowered position;

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of Figure l, and with dotted lines showing the position of the holding members when raised;

Figure 3 is an end view of Figure 2, showing in dotted lines the position of the holding members when raised; and,

Figure 4 is an enlarged transverse verticalsectional view taken substantially on the plane of the section line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, wherein for the purpose of illustration, there is disclosed a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the numeral l0 represents a supporting frame generally comprising a pair of spaced parallel side members or walls i=2 having flanged portions l4 that are provided with transverse aper- 2 Claims. "(01. 211-104) provided in the side walls l2 adjacent the flanged portions M, are dowel or pivot pins 20 havingtheir outer ends rig-idly"se cured in apertures 22 I provided in one terminal of a pair of transverse aside arms 24, which are preferably circularin= tures l6 that receive suitable fasteners for attaching the same to a supporting structure, with the side walls 12 disposed horizontally.

Pivotally mounted in longitudinal apertures l8 cross section.

Rigidly secured to one side of the arms 24, are

the terminals of'a plurality of longitudinal holding'bars 26 that loosely engage longitudinal grooves 28 provided in a plurality of bearing members 36 which are carried by the side walls l2.

A finger gripping knob 32 carried by a selected holding bar 24, facilitates the pivotal movement of the arm and holding rod 26 relative to the bearing members 30.

In practical use of the device, a wet stocking or the like 34 is placed on the bearing members and by lowering the arm 24, the holding members will engage the grooves 28 to force a portion of the wet stocking against the inner periphery of the grooves to cause the stocking to adhere to the inner periphery of the grooves, so that the arm 24 may again be raised to permit additional stockings to be retained in position to the bearing 1 members without the first engaged stocking slipping from position thereto.

It should be noted: that the holding bars are disposed horizontally when engaged in the grooves 28, thereby allowing the bars to be equally depressed into the holding grooves 28 at all points regardless of whether the stockings are placed in one, or all of the holding grooves; and, that the holding bars are of such a Weight that the same may engage the grooves to bear against the stocking to cause the wet stocking to adhere to the grooves, yet these holding bars are sufficiently light so that the drying stockings by losing their adhesive positioning in the grooves may lift or cause the holding bars to raise slightly. Although by raising the holding bars, the stockings will still be retained in the grooves, and the marks on the stockings originally caused by the depression of the holding bars in the grooves are removed during the drying process.

In view of the foregoing description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing it is believed that a clear understanding of the construction, operation and advantages of the device will be quite apparent to those skilled in this art. A more detailed description is accordingly deemed unnecessary.

It is to be understood, however, that even though there is herein shown and described a preferred embodiment of the invention the same is susceptible to certain changes fully compre- 3 hended by the spirit of the invention as herein described and the scope of the appended claims.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A device for supporting hosiery without snagging or tearing the said hosiery, said device comprising a fixed frame including a pair of spaced side members detachably secured to a supporting structural element and a pair of spaced parallel bearing, membersv terminall'ysecured to 10 said sidemembers"; said' bearing members -hav-'-- ing upper longitudinal surfaces and concaved recesses provided in said upper longitudinal sur--'- faces, an upper movable frame including a pain of cylindrical arms having inner and outer end portions, pins fixed to and projectingalaterallr from the inner end portionswof said arms, said, side members having openings loosely receiving said pins for vertical swinging movement of' said1 arms, and a pair of cylindrical pressure members terminally-fixed"toithe underside ofsaid arms, said-pressure members being swingable with saidarms for movement intoand out ofsaid recessesand .said 1 arms. extending, transverseln between and above-saidabars fonlimitingfiownwardswing:

ing movement of said movable frame relative to. said fixed frame;

2nA device for: supporting hosieryv without snagging: or-"tearingr, thesaidhosiery, said. device 4 comprising a fixed frame including a pair of side members and a pair of elongated bearing members fixed to said side members, an upper movable frame including a pair of arms having latera1 projections pivoted to said side members for vertical swinging movement of said arms and a pair of cylindrical pressure members fixed to the lower surfaces of said arms for swinging movement therewith, and a longitudinal, concave, recesseprovide'd in .each of said" bearing j members loosely receiving said cylindrical pressure mem bers, said arms extending above said bearing members.

STEFAN PIKOR.

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